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ISBN: 9781875559367
0.200 kgs
198 x 128 mm
230 pp

Imago
Francesca Rendle-Short

ACT Book of the Year Award, 1997

imago
1. the final and fully developed stage of an insect after all metamorphoses e.g. a butterfly or beetle.
2. Psychoanal. an idealised concept of a loved one formed in childhood and retained uncorrected in adult life.

Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec.

Milky sticky wet worms wriggled and fed off one another in clumps all over the bed. Breast deep. The young couple were on their way to Australia.

When Molly agrees to go on a journey across hemispheres she’s looking for an escape from home. Once there she meets Marj. Fat Marj. Imago is a story of love and obsession, of seduction and transformations. The threading together of skins, of bodies. It’s a story of metamorphosis, taking and eating, larvae and pupae, the risks of stagnation. Possibilities of death.

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'This is a tender, delicate story of uneasy relationships sharpened by geographical and cultural disjunction, and the careful sifting of hitherto core beliefs to survive.'

Reviewer: Otago Daily Times, New Zealand, 1996

‘Imago is a great restless read, punchy and quirky and indescribably tender.’

Reviewer: Diva, UK

'The transferences of female imagery to the landscape (a tremendously difficult device to use newly) are among the best I've read. The fluctuations and magnitudes of individual interpersonal electricity are also conveyed with great respect and art.'

Source: Overland, 1997
Reviewer: Jennifer Maiden

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